Given my proclivities, it’s strange I don’t make it to DFW Interactive Marketing Association meetings more often — however, it tends to be a very agency-heavy crowd, and thusfar, that hasn’t really been my world. (I appear to be the only attendee who Tweeted anything about the talk. Discuss…) But today I was thrilled I [...]

First, a caveat: I’m not doing this to pick on Wavii. They are no different from myriad other web companies who like to run extra vowels and consonants together. I’m sure they are magnificent people whose dogs love them. However, they have the misfortune of having hit my email box at a moment when I [...]

Below is my presentation to the DFW WordPress Meetup Group this weekend. Slideshare is still jacked up in the way it renders notes, so I’m publishing my slide notes below. It might be easiest to open a duplicate window if you want to synch note to slide. Also, sorry for the blank slides after the [...]

I finally realized that one of the reasons I wasn’t updating my various personal and business websites was that I had too damn many of them. I’ve now imported everything into one shiny and new site, save for the site for my Prison Entrepreneurship book. I had to keep that separate because it’s a members-only [...]

There are a couple interesting tests of our National love of Freedom of Speech on my radar screen this week. They’re remarkably similar, but my reaction to them is viscerally different, so I thought them worth comparing: First, there’s the tale of a professor at a University of Wisconsin outpost who got called down for [...]

When last we checked in on Our Hero, he was taking a sabbatical after a long and bumpy startup ride and had lots of plans and ideas for his newly-found spare time. Results were mixed, largely because consulting work started finding me almost immediately. At the same time, we were flirting with perhaps picking up [...]

Want a glimpse of the future of advertising? If you’ve got an iPhone, a thorough understanding of the new game, The Heist, may change the way you think about media. Now sticking an ad in a game is nothing new — and there are no apparent ads in The Heist. So what’s the biggie? Shell [...]

We had a BIG storm last night here in the DFW area. While there were tornadoes and hail damage and some injuries, our area managed to come out fairly well. That said, it was the scariest storm situation I can remember in the last ten years in Dallas. It was the first time we’d ever [...]

At yesterday’s TechCrunch Disrupt, mobile payments purveyor Square announced a pilot product with two key components: Square Register as a POS replacement for merchants and Square Card Case as a mobile payments wallet for consumers. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time — how mobile payments finally fuse online and offline [...]

One of the all-time most popular posts on this blog was lengthy discussion of the tools I used to manage information overload, circa 2009. Obviously there are lots of new services since then, and hardware like the iPad yielded changes in my workflow. I’ve been meaning to do an updated version of that post, but [...]

I went to yesterday’s Schieffer Symposium on the News at TCU and found myself involuntarily Tweeting. So, I thought I’d see how it looked to cover an event (mostly) by Tweet. After the jump, a Storify embed: